Ask me my political affiliation and I will say, "Independent," since that is how I'm registered. Ask me my political philosophy and I will coin a term.
"Practical Libertarian."While I believe the best...
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The bones of Olympian Jim Thorpe have been with us for 55 years. Reluctantly, the town had agreed to accept them with the hopes of a major new hospital along with a national football muse...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike reports that motorists traveling northbound and southbound on the PA Turnpike's Northeastern Extension (I-476) will be stopped a maximum of 20 minutes at noon Nov. 16, 17, 18...
Herman "Hymie" Rockman is a huckster. In Tamaqua, on weekends, he sells cabbages, apples and potatoes that he grows on his 100-acre New Ringgold farm.
Farming is a difficult life for a man in the prim...
By JIM ZBICK
jzbick@tnonline.comIn the fall of 1909, many Pennsylvania farmers were looking to the skies for help from the drought conditions that had gripped the Mid-Atlantic region.In October, the s...
A Luzerne County man was sentenced to a state prison term Thursday on charges of robbery and aggravated assault.
Eleazar Yisrael, 24, of Hazleton, was sentenced by Judge David A. Addy to serve two to ...
Duck hunting reopens Monday and remains open through Friday, Jan. 15, in the South Zone. Canada goose hunting opens Monday and remains open through Saturday, Nov. 28, and then reopens Friday, Dec. 11,...
Most American families have their children involved in a variety of school or community sports. Penn Forest Township parents are no different.
From football to cheerleading, Jim Thorpe parents are shu...
PennDOT Engineering District 5 announced that work will begin Monday on a roadway improvement project to improve US 209 in Mahoning Township, Lehighton, and Jim Thorpe.
The project is financed with fe...
Tattoos and body art were once something that only rebels, outcasts, or military enlistees did. The "good kids" would never think of scarring their bodies permanently. Now, though, it's almost impossi...